Judy Is a Punk
| "Judy Is a Punk" | ||||||||||
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| Song by Ramones from the album Ramones | ||||||||||
| Released | February 1976 | |||||||||
| Recorded | January 1976 | |||||||||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||||||||
| Length | 1:30 | |||||||||
| Label | Sire/ABC | |||||||||
| Writer | Joey Ramone | |||||||||
| Producer | Craig Leon | |||||||||
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Judy Is a Punk is a song by the Ramones.
Story
Judy Is a Punk was written around the same time as "Beat on the Brat". Joey had explained that the first line came about after he walked by Thorny Croft, an apartment building that Joey said was "where all the kids in the neighborhood hung out on the rooftop and drank." The second line came about after walking down a different street.[1] The lyrics refer to two juvenile offenders in Berlin and San Francisco and their possible deaths at the conclusion of the song.[1] The song acknowledges that it is fictional, according to Nicholas Rombes, who describes this meta-perspective of punk in his analysis of the song as "both a line in a song and a line in a song about a line in a song."[2] "Judy Is a Punk" is the original album's shortest song, being one minute and 32 seconds.[3] The lyrics make joking references about going one better by stating the second time around, "Third verse/different from the first".
References
- 1 2 True 2002 p. 60
- ↑ Ramones, Rombes 2005 p. 83
- ↑ "Ramones [Expanded], The Ramones, Music CD - Barnes & Noble". Music.barnesandnoble.com. 2001-06-19. Retrieved 2010-10-24.